¡Quiubo! Fernando de Miguel Fuertes here. I wrote and directed my first play at 13, which I staged with my siblings and cousins in Mexico City on Xmas eve in the year 2000. You do the math. 

I'm a writer-director for screen and stage currently based in Sydney, Australia. I combine expertise in both the arts and social sciences to tell spicy stories. My work spans film and theatre projects across Mexico, China, Italy, and Australia. Working in Spanish, English, French, German, Italian and Mandarin Chinese, I favour innovative storytelling with impactful performances across genres and mediums. I'm particularly passionate about challenging conventions and offering fresh perspectives on familiar narratives.

My storytelling blurs the boundary between inner life and outer reality, placing power, complicity and the tension between worlds at the centre of my stories. I conjure my films in close communion with writers, costume and set designers, composers, sound designers, cinematographers and the actors themselves, moving between original stories and bold re-imaginings of existing material. A National Institute of Dramatic Art graduate (MFA Directing), I also contributed a chapter on screen performance to the 2026 Routledge anthology Stanislavsky and Screen Actor Training.